Houston National Golf Club

Overall the course needs maintenance. 98% of the bunkers are unplayable. They need actual sand in them. The fairways were very hit or miss. The tee boxes were slopped, bumpy, and patchy with grass. The greens were okay, could use some maintenance in certain areas. This course is not worth the greens fees, even with the burger and beer.

My son and I we are in Houston for a meeting and we decided to play some golf while in Houston.

We selected Houston National and made a tee time for the morning of April 7th.

Unfortunately the course was in poor state. In many places there was no grass period. You couldn't tell if you were on fairway or the rough; it was all weeds!

I was expecting a lot more for that money!

The course was in good shape. They are doing a better job of minimizing the volume of range balls that wind up on the golf course. However, the pace has been very slow that last few time's I've played at this course.

Houston National is a decent course but I feel like the value is starting to slip. It was close to $100 for a weekday round (that's with a small bucket of range balls). Important to note that they do include a lunch with that cost so that helps some but it wasn't that long ago that this same deal was in the $60-70 range for a weekday round. The front nine moved fine. We played it in exactly two hours. And then we pulled up to hole 10 and there were three groups waiting on the tee box. We proceeded to wait on every hole on the back. Not sure what happened there but it was pretty disappointing. I've played this course plenty and I'm sure I'll be back but it may be a little while before I return.

There are two courses there. One is a private club with a pristine, beautiful course. The other is Houston National, which is more like a typical public course. Challenging layouts on several holes. Fairways were fair. There were children playing on one hole and a man fishing off one of the greens. No marshals around and no refreshment carts. At least there was water and ball washers.

After some very heavy rain the night before the course was still in great condition. Obviously cart path only, and the range being closed were detractors, but what a nice afternoon at the course. Greens were incredibly fast and the fairways were soft, but still very playable. Lunch and a drink included was a bonus.

The course was not in good condition and the bathrooms were in bad shape.

The only con to my round at HN was the pace of play. Flew through the front 9 in under 2 hours, then spent 3+ on the back after getting stuck behind multiple groups.

I liked the layout and the greens were in great shape. The fairways were a little sparse and there was no Marshall. That resulted in an eightsome being followed by a single being followed by us (a twosome). Needless to say, we waited around a lot.

I generally like this course but you can tell we’ve not had enough water this winter. This Sunday we were stuck behind a little kid tournament. I’m all for training the next generation but tell me in the pro shop ahead of my round. The pace of play was awful in the front nine.

Not bad but also not great. Fun course layout but the greens and fairways aren’t taken care of. The meal included was great I must say. Other than that I wouldn’t come back for the price.

Playing this course is not the same as hitting balls at the practice range. It will put your creativity to the test at navigating the undulating fairways and greens. You play this course once… it will keep you wanting to come back.

Booked a tee time through golf now for twilight rates, but when I showed up to the course they informed me that the twilight hours have since changed to start at 3:30pm and I now owed the full normal rate for my 3:20pm tee time.

Pace of play was horrendous and I couldn't even finish the round before the sun set.

On top of that, the course had obviously hosted a tournament earlier that day and it was in awful condition. I've played Houston national multiple times and this is by far the worse experience I have ever had there. It's slowly gone down hill and gotten more expensive since they upgraded carts. Better courses for the money in the area.

So this is my first time I was on a business trip and I thought hey let me try. This course looks great. Looks like it’s got great reviews. So the first big noticeable portion of the course that was pretty bad was the driving range, mats were worn down the entire driving range was nothing but sand. Range balls they only have one size apparently nine dollars gray small bucket of 25 maybe. The golf cart that I got in covered in Bird poop had to talk to one of the cart guys for them to hand me a tell to clean it off. One of the good things that did come from this was that I was paired up with a really nice guy by the name of Chuck. It was his first time playing the course both of us agreed amazing. I’m talking about fun amazing course Leo. Course conditions on the other hand fairways were horrible patchy dry the greens. Let me tell you something about the greens. The greens were fair fair condition. I did like them. They weren’t too bad bunkers you couldn’t play in the bunkers maybe one or bunker, but most of them weren’t. Look at the end of the day. I’ll just say this the layout was awesome and amazing when I come back yeah I’d come back. Fix the course conditions improve your driving range. Give me a different size of a bucket of range balls and you might want to lower the green fee definitely not worth 50 to 75. Houston national I know you can do better.